http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html is updated, it now also contains my Friendly Help for CS6, as both HTML (separate files) and CHM (one compiled file for use with a Windows Help viewer).

By way of experiment I added a "Full Index" to the HTML version. This is a single huge file, 2.7MB, but it contains links to all properties and methods in the entire set of files. So if you can't use the live one in the compiled CHM, you can still use this one to get a good overview of What to find Where.

Thanks for that. Would it be possible for you to do a difference list, that is, to do a list with "what's new in CS6"? New properties, methods, and enumerations? I did a few of those in the past but it has become a bit of a hassle in recent years.

I don't know if I can do the same; purely theoretically it ought to be possible with XSLT (which, I'm sure you know, I am using to process the data files). But I can't think of a good method off the top of my head.

@Jongware – Could you also do a chm version for InDesign CS5.5?I know there is the online documentation. I wonder how much trouble it is to transform that into a chm file.Or are there tools to do it myself?

And another thing with the online documentation of CS5.5:Did you by any chance have the Adobe Digitial Publishing Suite installed when you created the online version of InDesign CS5.5?

I noticed that there is the "getAllOverlays" method listed for "application":

That method is missing in the above lists by John. That is no omission since there seems no DPS involved on his side. And in your case, no wonder, it is missing in the CS6 documentation too, since DPS v20 for InDesign CS6 is not available yet and the current v19 does not work with InDesign CS6.

On the other hand the "app.getDigpubVersion()" method is missing in your online documentation of InDesign CS5.5 which, so I believe, belongs totally to DPS and is only available if you have a installed DPS (like me). But maybe this method came with v19 of DPS and you had v17 or v18 installed the day you did the online documentation.

When you see a property such as "Document.articles", sometimes you want to get to the reference to the "Articles" -- plural --, for example when you want to add or list them. But more often, you want to see the properties of an individual article; and to get to those, you have to click "Articles", then browse down the list to a reference to the singular and then click that. So now, when I see a plural reference and there also is a singular class, this is shown besides the plural.

Some numbers for the CS6 version, by the way, to illustrate the depth & width of this help

Uwe, I don't do anything 'special' to get or not get special DPS commands included -- I only use what I get to see in the most recent OMV file.

Since DPS is constantly updated (well, probably a good thing) you'll have to check Adobe's OMV for changes in the JS interface, each time you update it. Besides, I'm not a fan user of DPS so I'm not going to jump through hoops everytime ithis happens.

@Jongware – Could you also do a chm version for InDesign CS5.5?I know there is the online documentation. I wonder how much trouble it is to transform that into a chm file.Or are there tools to do it myself?

CS5.5 was a strange omission -- perhaps because it came out at such a strange time! Corrected; I also threw in InCopy and ID Server for completeness' sake.

If you have a set of HTML files you can convert them to a single CHM file with Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop. The version I am using is from 1999, which is ancient in terms of software, but it does a very good job, as an input size of 19MB gets compressed into a mere 3.5MB in minutes.

These help files are 'old format'; there is also a 'new format', but (a) I don't have the tools or any experience with creating it, (b) I'm not too sure if my preferred Mac viewer (Robin Lu's iCHM) can display them, and (c) I'm not too wild about how files are displayed .

For example, who could ever have a grudge against PagesPanel.verticalView!? Surely that's not no longer an option in CS6?

Whoops. The position of the UI control for this changed, and I figured it just moved around in the scripting DOM, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Sounds like an oversight. Bug #3177903: PagesPanel.verticalView property disappeared (CS6 regression). If you find any others, it would be good to find them prior to Monday.

On the bright side, you can just set app.scriptPreferences.version=7.5 and it still works.

Any others?

*Kicks self* for not running this report earlier and not really paying attention...

Dunno. I've been looking under all kinds of preferences and settings, but haven't found it. To make finding what parent(s) a property or a method belongs to, I was going to ask if it's possible to change the xslt in such a way that the output list includes full path names, so to speak.

That is, for each proprerty (including eums), we only know the associated Class. And the Class belongs to a Suite.

Sometimes the descriptions include (unstructured) references to an enumerator, but there are no decriptions that reference this enumerator.

And nothing has a <datatype/> tag that lists this enumerator.

So, it's certainly possible to change the XSLT to look up the Suite of a class in the <map/> section, but I didn't bother because it's a little more code and doesn't get us anything real. The PageViewOptions class belongs to the Enumeration suite, and that's all we can say.

Whoops. The position of the UI control for this changed, and I figured it just moved around in the scripting DOM, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Sounds like an oversight. Bug #3177903: PagesPanel.verticalView property disappeared (CS6 regression). If you find any others, it would be good to find them prior to Monday.

Well, that was exciting.

Bug was marked Withdrawn/Closed/As Designed on Monday, I guess because QE thought that there was some way to use PageViewOptions.

I lodged an inquiry then and today it was confirmed that it is indeed a bug (after "lengthy investigation") and it's been reopened and moved to CSnext.